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Medford and Jackson County
Hislory from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago. '
10 YEARS AGO
Aug. 8, 1950 (Tuesday)
The Jackson county selec
tive service board reported to
day that it has received an ad
ditional call for 86 men to re
port for physicals.
The Crater Babes, girl's
Softball team, defeated a
Klamath Falls team 19-0 yes
terday. 20 YEARS AGO
Aug. 8, 1940 (Thursday)
The packing school spon
sored by the Traffic associa
tion and the Fruitgrowers
league opened yesterday in
Pinnacle plant No. 2 with 120
pupils in attendance.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
; Smudge Pot" column: "What
ever became of the New Deal
notion of a few years back
whereby the people were go
ing to have too much of every
thing by not having enough of
anything.':
30 YEARS AGO
Aug. 8, 1930 (Friday)
Walter Holmes, 11, Med
ford, has been up a tree now
for 245 hours and says he
hopes to set a world record
before he comes down.
The government has an
nounced it will spend $25,000
this year on Crater Lake road
improvements.
40 YEARS AGO
Aug. 8, 1920 (Sunday)
Ashland's population is now
4,283 according to the federal
census.
of sugar yesterday and have
sent to the south for an
emergency supply.
SO YEARS AGO
Aug. 8, 1910 (Monday)
W, K. Newell, president of
the state board of horticul
ture, told local fruitgrowers
yesterday that the one thing
that can help them the most is
cooperation with one another
The U.S. bureau of soils is
making one of the most com
prehensive soil studies tests
in the Rogue valley that has
ever been made on the west
coast.
What's Your I.Q.7
Nine or ten correct Is superior
seven or eight Is excellent; five or
six is good.
1. Name the capital of Can
ada. 2. Is the larger part of an
ocean liner above or below
the waterline?
3. Who's Fifth and Ninth
Symphonies are regarded as
world masterpieces?
4. Is the highest grade of
paper made of wood pulp,
rags, or sugar cane?
5. In which months does
spring begin in the South
Temperature zone?
6. Was Jackson, Johnson
or Lincoln nicknamed "Old
Hickory?"
7. In the Army, which is
the next rank above private?
8. Steel is an alloy of iron
and - what?
9. What was the name of
the Duchess of Windsor be
fore she married?
10. Name the oldest of the
following cities: Sante Fe,
N. M., Plymouth, Mass.,
Jamestown, Va St. Augus
tine, Fla.
Answers: 1. Oitowa. 2. Be
low. 3. Beethoven's. 4. Rags.
5. September. 6. Jackson.
7. Private, first class. 8. Car
bon. 9. Mm. Wallis Warfield.
10. St, Augustine.
mnium-.H.'.iuM
Hoover
"In each of vour
bade you an affectionate goodby. My goodbyes,
however, did not take, and I have been bombard
ed with requests to do it again for the fourth
time. Now unless some miracle comes to me from
the good Lord, this is finally it."
The speaker was Herbert Clark Hoover; the
occasion the 27th Republican national conven
tion. His remarks, as were his previous farewells,
were greeted with cries
The former President who will be 86 on Wed
nesday was in a sense saying goodbye to the na
tion, for his speech was televised on three nation
wide networks. Characteristically, his remarks
transcended politics as he cited America s fright
enincr moral slump," and called for the "stimula
tion of American nationalism" which "might give
support to our defense of
LIERBERT Hoover at
1 1 younger image before
30 years ago. Gone are
collars and the never-quite-in-place dark neck
ties. Gone is the high stiff rounded prose style,
replaced by a vigorous and occasionally daring
method oi expression,
1958, and at Chicago.
The blacksmith's son
aire early in life retired from public life in June,
1955, after 41 years of almost continuous service,
but he remains much in
Whether in his suite in the Waldorf Towers in
New York or the 17th-floor suite he customarily
engages in San Francisco's Mark Hopkins Hotel,
he works a seven-day week, iu to VI hours a day.
Although he tries to winnow down his public en
gagements, he makes a score of speeches or more
every year. His one concession to "age" : he now
rises at 7 o'clock rather than 6.
LJERBERT Hoover was the first Quaker to hold
the nation's highest office, also the first Presi
dent to be born west of the Mississippi River. He
was the first President trained in science, and he
now is greatly disturbed at
students in this country
applied to science in the
Hoover gained world
of Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, as Commission
er for Relief in Beligum and U.S. Food Admin
istrator in World War 1. When appointed Secre
tary of Commerce by Harding in 1921 (he con
tinued to serve under Coolidge), he had had no
background of partisan politics, and had held no
elective public office.
In recent years he has
the pre-Presidential image. Last December he
was voted the eighth "most admired" man in the
nation.
This busy, prolific man is no sobersides,
either. His favorite hobby is fishintr, most recent
ly what iie calls ' lishing tor older persons
sitting in a skiff off the
J 1 J! -1. TT I J.
among his uncompleted
so he has been quoted
and "making speeches."
Slavery
lor Doneusn. ne uses actenamff Daseoau eames
We're slaves to things we don't understand,
including machines. The other day in the Fort
Rock area, about as far from noplace as a body
is likely to find himself, the car quit. Just quit.
bend was bu miles away,
potential tow bill quite
was neaven Knows wnere.
One crets out his screw
apart, that's what. And
the way it ought to go,
ougnt to go
lhis accomplishment,
wasn't distributing whatever it is that distributors
distribute, was one of the great victories of our
lite. We're still bragging about it, and doubtless
will until our friends walk the other way when
we approacn.
"VET, that really isn't such a great achievement,
The paternal ancestor, back around World
War I, negotiated the Mt. Hood hierhwav then
a pair of wagon ruts, in his Model T. Along the
way he broke a spring. What did he do? Call
somebody? He did not. He went into the woods,
cut a sapling and made himself a new spring,
ngnt there on the road.
People were more self
Now we're slaves. Yet, we wouldn't worry so
much about our thralldom to the automobile, if
we better understood our master. Eugene Reg
ister Guard.
The Shortest Speech
A dozen times prior to Gov. Mark Hatfield's
delivery of his 288-word speech nominating
Richard Nixon we saw references to the shortest
nomination speech of them all the 27-word ef
fort which put Abraham Linocln in nomination.
We were curious as to what powerful-packed
words of exhortation could have been used to re
sult in this little-known Illinois lawyer being
nominated for President.
Here then, for the record, is the speech, given
by Norman B. Judd, in Chicago in 1860:
I desire, on behalf of the delegation from Illinois,
lo put in nomination, as a candidate for the President
of the United Slates, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois.
And not one reference to the titanic ten
sions that test our times.
Salem.
At 86
last three conventions.
ot No! JNo!
freedom.
86 somehow , casts
the public than he did
the high stiff rounded
as demonstrated botn in
who became a million
the public eye today,
the lack of engineering
and the larger numbers
boviet Union.
fame as the appointee
been growing back into
Florida keys and waitinir
J . 1 11
tasks. And secretly or
he "hates" conventions
E.R.R.
I960
a tact which made a
formidable. A telephone
so what does one clov
driver and takes t,hP cur
he puts it back together
or the way he thinks it
miner a distributor that
- sufficient in those davs.
Oretron Statesman.
Dennis the
'Don't settod cwsg.iroey. H
Communications
Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the
writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen
name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail
Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to
clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for pub
lication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in
this column do not necossarily represent the views of the
paper; in fact the contrary is
Devilish Queer
To the Editor: It seems to
me that the men who become
politicians and are elected to
office forget to use common
horse sense in making and
passing laws. If the 85th Con
gress, controlled by the Re
publicans, wanted to help
balance the budget, why did
they vote the president such
a whopper of an Increase in
salary? Then all Congressmen.
To top it all they voted ex
presidents $25,000 and their
widows $10,000 so they could
live as they had become used
to living. Not one veto was
used on this. (Did they have
that much before?) But when
the 86th Congress voted all
the little working cogs an in
crease in pay, a veto.
A Forand bill to help the
aged was swept out of the
way for a watered-dowrr af
fair that's not passed. Social
Security disability, my how
easy to get, six months you
don't work, then apply. If it
so pleases them at the big of
fice you get processed in
another six months. By that
time you have starved to
death for all they care.
The little cogs are entitled
to a way of life they are used
to when young the same as
the Big Wheels.
When the president steps
down he will draw $25,000
plus his five-star general s re
tirement pay. And it's all
out of the taxpayer's pocket.
I wonder, was Dave Beck
so bad after all? The wages
of the congressmen and presi
dent should have been by the
vote of people.
While waiting in a friend s
car on the street of Medford,
I've seen old people going
through the garbage barrels
In back of the stores search
ing for food.
Devilish queer, eh, what?
Gladys Hamilton
Route 2, Box 468
Medford.
Herblock "Poison"
To the Editor: I am a sub
scriber to your paper, but I
get darned tired of seeing
your partisan Herblockhead
ads.
Why don't you keep this
poison off the front page and
If you are absolutely deter
mined lo run it, put it on the
editorial page (where it be
longs)?
We Republicans pay for and
read your paper also.
Why do we have to be sub
jected to Uiis junk?
Rex Vowell
1219 Queen Anne
Medford.
Public Hearing
To the Editor:- Regarding
Copco rate increase, your pa
per recently printed an arti
cle entitled: "Collier Raps
Copco at Yrcka Hearing," in
which "California State Sen
ator Randolph Collier of Yre
ka attacked the Copco for
their proposed increase in
rate before a California Pub
lic Utilities hearing, stating
that before Copco comes be
fore this commission, they
should prove themselves and
do something for their cus
tomers." And "with reference to re
ported power fluctuations,
Collier said, I think before
they regulate their rates, they
should regulate the power."
I agree with Senator Collier,
because we in Southern Ore
gon have the same problem,
and I have personally com-
Menace
nose wrxsHOWMys!'
often the case.
plained about it to the P.U.C.
and Copco.
Furthermore, I have com
plained over the discrimina
tory electric rates charged by
Copco to small businesses. I
only asked for just and hon
est and equitable rates, which
were promised me in 1953,
but nothing happened until
1958 when Copco got big-
hearted and gave the small
business a few cents relief.
Here is a comparison be
tween residential and com
mercial rates:
For instance, on a total of
2100 kilowatt hours consump
tion of electric power, busi
ness is charged $64.50; resi
dential is charged $27.60 for
the SAME amount of elec
tric service. Business Davs
$36.90 more than residential
- well over twice as much.
You be the judge and see
for yourself Whv I nnrl mnnv
other business people have
complained, and why so
many businesses go out of
business.
The Public Utilities Com
mission will continue its
hearing on Copco's reauest
for an increase in its residen
tial rates on Tuesday (tomor
row) at 9:30 a.m. at the Court
house in Medford Please come
and express your feelings.
This is a PUBLIC hearing -and
the public should be
heard!
Frank Koch
412 South First St.,
Central Point, Ore.
Letter Too Long
To the Editor: With interest
I noted the letter of Frank
Christian in your issue of 8-3-60.
In your box at the head
of the letters to editor it states
that letters "must not exceed
400 words." Mr. Christian's
letter was in excess of 600
words. It would be of no con
cern to me except that when
I sent in a letter suggesting
that perhaps Mr. E. A. was
not the all-knowing messiah
and prophet he seems to take
himself to be, that letter was
returned to me unpublished
because it exceeded 400
words. Evidently your poli
cy is that if the letter agrees
with your viewpoint as Mr.
Christian's obviously did -there
is no observance of the
regulation, or should I say
there is a convenient over-
lokoing of the regulation. If
there is a letter critical of
your policy - the 400 word
limit is a good gimmick to
use as an excuse to not pub
lish it. .
No doubt Mr. E. A. in his
infinite genius will descend
from his lofty pedestal and
with tolerance and patience
speak to this Ignorant peas
ant and tell me why. Except
for the paper's political lean
ing, such policy reminds me
of the Hearst press or the
Chicago Tribune which I am
sure you abhor as befits all
good democrats to do.
E. L. Wcstlund
114 South Ooakdale ave.
Medford, Oregon
Editor's note: No slight to
Mr. Westlund was Intended.
The over-length letter slipped
in through oversight while
E. A. was on a week's vaca
tion out of town, without the
cutting, or returning for cut
ting, usually practiced. As a
matter of fact, letters at odds
with editorial views usually
arc given preference in this
column, other things being
equal.
Foreign Notebook: Adenauer Seeking To
Avoid Trade War Among European Blocs
By WILLIAM J. FOX
From the foreign editor's
notebook:
Mediator Adenauer
West German Chancellor
Washington Report
y WILLIAM
THREE-FRONT BATTLE
, Washington - Suddenly the
presidential campaign is a
three - front war.
Cheerfully ig
nored is that
tradit i o n a 1
period of un
declared and
partial armis
1 1 c e between
nomina ting
con ventions
and Labor
Day which we
used to know
in presidential election years.
This time they are going at
it immediately and hotly. And
it is plain that until election
day there will be no pause.
The first front engages the
presidential aspirants direct
ly. Kennedy the Democrat, in
his HRQ in Hyannis Port,
Mass., huddles with a length
ening list of volunteer lieu
tenants. And even as he draws
up his central battle order he
keeps his main batteries firing
incessantly upon Nixon, the
Republican. -
Nixon is making his GHQ a
mobile one. He swoops down
for a few hours into his native
California. Then he pulls up
his forward command post -
which is his airplane - and
plunges into the newest state,
Hawaii. His direct shelling of
Kennedy is, for the moment
at least, somewhat less intense
than the fire he is getting
from that quarter.
THE second front is the bat
tle of handouts - the news
paperman's term for the form
al statements, charges, mani
festos and such handed out
by politicians. The multi
copying machines run already
at burning speed in Kennedy
headquarters in Hyannis Port.
They are turning fast, too, in
Nixons rear command post
here in Washington.
Already far more words
have been flung in this way
by both sides than ever be
fore had been flung before
mid-August had been reached.
The third front is the floor
of the United States Senate.
The resumed session is still
formally to open. But already
a marshaling and counter
marshaling goes on there for
a politely savage struggle
which may have great influ
ence on the outcome in No
vember.
THE Kennedy-Johnson forces
will, of course, be under
Kennedy's ultimate command,
there as elsewhere. But in
this one theater of action the
second officer, Senator Lyn
don B. Johnson, will have a
great and possibly a decisive
hand in the Kennedy-Johnson
strategy. For in the Senate
Johnson, as still the majority
leader, is still the senior
officer present.
What Kennedy and John
son mean to do is to run up,
in weeks' time, a legislative
record of popular appeal and
liberal cast. These bills they
will send to President Eisen
hower to accept or to veto. If
he accepts them Kennedy and
Johnson can probably claim
the credit - or blame - for
what is in them. If the Presi
dent rejects them, the Ken
nedy - Johnson forces will
counterattack - not the Presi
dent but Nixon.
Nixon, for his part, will be
operating in the Senate with
out any assistance from his
running - mate, Henry Cabot
Lodge. Lodge, our Ambassa
dor to the United Nations, in
tends to go on with his duties
there. But the Vice President
will not be without his re
sources on the floor of the
Senate. He is still its presid
ing officer.
ALREADY, more over, he
has the undoubted support
of the whole Republican side
of the Senate. No Republican
there at this point of crisis,
whatever his past differences
with Vice President Nixon, is
now going to help in the
destruction o f presidential
candidate Nixon.
Taking all in all, it would
'Sea Monster' Seen
On English Coast
Scarborough, Eng. - UPD -Residents
and tourists thought
they had found a cousin of the
Loch Ness monster Sunday
when a 50-foot sea monster
was spotted at sunrise.
But the monster turned out
to be a phony, left over from
a local festival.
"It's not every day one has
to dispose of a dragon," ex
plained Derek Towle, a mem
ber of the committee in charge
of cleaning up after the festi
val. "We decided to launch
it floriously in the sea, and
sink It later."
blazing
Whit
Konrad Adenauer is expected
to mediate between Britain
and the six-nation common
market bloc to prevent a wide
open division of Europe into
S. WHITE
appear at the moment that
Nixon was a bit outgunned on
each of the three fronts of
this war. But there is this to
remember: Nixon is still far
the most experienced national
campaigner in the field. And
he is a field commander who
before this has turned seem
ing disaster into actual tri
umph. To sum up, as an old-fashioned
army, communique
might put it: there is heavy
and unexpectedly early action
on every front. Already, the
fog of war hangs heavily
everywhere. And the issue is
in doubt - as it well may be
until the very last day of the
firing. i
(Copyright, 1960. by United
Feature Syndicate. Inc.)
In the Days News
By FRANK JENKINS
In a closely-watched Ten
nessee Democratic primary
election Estes Kefauver won
a third term nomination to
the U. S. Senate (which in
Tennessee is equivalent to
election) with a stunning
landslide victory. As this is
written (with returns in from
90 per cent of the state's 2,635
precincts) the vote is:
Kefauver 433,007.
Taylor 218,981.
The big issue of the election
was civil rights. Kefauver rep
resented the moderate liberal
element. His opponent, Judge
Andrew Taylor, stood pat for
segregation and states rights.
TENNESSEE is an interest
intf craf. Tt hoc Innff hoon
known as the Volunteer State
because in every war since
the Revolution it has supplied
two or three times as many
volunteers as were called for
by the federal government.
Tennessee was the last state
to break away from the Union
in 1861 and the first to be ad
mitted to the Union again
after the war between the
states had e nded. It fought
through the war as a Southern
state, but when the war ended
there was no waving of the
bloody shirt in Tennessee. Its
people went to work courage
ously and in the difficult days
of the Reconstruction they
managed to rebuild their
economy under the new con
ditions. A PECULIARITY of the
state is that no resident
of it ever calls himself just a
Tennessean. He is either an
East Tennessean, a Middle
Tennessean or a West Tennes
sean. East Tennessee is a moun
taineer land, with all the
characteristics of a mountain
country. Its people tend to be
small farmers. Middle Tennes
see is a bluegrass country,
with blooded horses, beef and
dairy cattle. It has most of
the characteristics of the
Bluegrass region of Kentucky.
West Tennessee is the Old
South. The "land o' cotton,"
bordering on the Mississippi,
01' Man River, with romantic
river boats and white-columned
Big Houses in its back
ground.
But
Even in tradition-hallowed
West Tennessee Kefauver got
a substantial vote, breaking
even with his opponent in
many precincts and even car
rying a few.
VVHAT does it all mean?
' I think it means that if
the South is left reasonably
alone and is given a reason
able amount of time, it will
solve its own civil rights prob
lems. Just as the people of
Tennessee, including aristo
cratic West Tennessee, got to
gether and solved their diffi
cult reconstruction problems
and came out of it all a pros
perous, modern American
state.
Such a solution, if and
when it is reached, will be
far better for our country as
a whole than a forced and too
hasty decision based on the
cold-blooded vote-chasing that
has characterized so much of
the PURELY POLITICAL
civil rights battling of recent
years.
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two warring trade groups.
Adenauer fears that unless
some compromise is reached,
the entire Western European
defense alliance could be
weakened - with Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev the
chief winner.
Adenauer recently met with
French President Charles de
Gaulle in Paris, and the issue
was among those discussed
there. British Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan journeys to
Bonn this week, and the eco
nomic issue will also be con
sidered then. The upshot is
expected to be an understand
ing to form a joint forum for
close consultation between the
two rival groups.
Political Relations
Far East observers look for
American-Filipino relations to
continue to improve and for
those between the Soviet
Union and Japan to get better.
But' they forsee that Japan
will remain at odds with Com
munist China and look for a
continued delay in the re
sumption of talks to normal
Drummond
(Walter Lippman is on vacation.
from Washington in his absence.)
WHY KENNEDY LEADS
Washington - Fortunately
no one can foresee how this
Presidential campaign is go
ing to end.
But we do know how it is
beginning.
It is beginning with Senator
Kennedy in a visibly strong
position, with Vice President
Nixon facing an uncertain,
uphill prospect.
Both nominees and most po
litical writers are agreed on
that.
Mr. Nixon counts himself
the underdog and he isn't just
saying so to avoid overconfi
dence. He means it. He is
planning his campaign accord
ingly. Mr. Kennedy knows that
his problem is to hold the
strength he already has and
to keep the independent and
registered-Democratic voters,
who twice supported General
Eisenhower, from voting for
a Republican President again.
The immediate questions to
look at, then, are these: What
are Kennedy's campaign ad
vantages? How far do they
put him ahead? Can Nixon
close the gap?
HPHERE are four factors
which combine to give
Kennedy favorable odds at
the outset:
1-The majority of voters
are overwhelmingly Demo
cratic and have been almost
uninterruptedly for 28 years.
Evidence: the Republican par
ty as a party has won a ma
jority of the voters only once
in the past 14 Congressional
elections. Thus the Republi
cans have been a minority
party in 13 of the past 14 Con
gressional elections-from 1932
through 1938. Only once did
the Republican Congressional
candidates get more votes
than the Democratic Congres
sional candidates; that was in
1946 at the peak of Mr. Tru
man's temporary unpopular
ity. 2 - President Eisenhower's
popularity has never rubbed
off on the Republican party.
After the narrow Congression
al majority in 1952, President
Eisenhower continued to
mount in favor and the Re
publican party continued to
decline in favor. The Presi
dent won more decisively; the
Republican party lost more
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petence and tl
ize relations Deiween japan
and the Republic of Korea.
Short-lived Government
South Korea's new govern,
ment is being counted out be
fore it's solidly in power.
Many observers in Seoul are
predicting a life of only a few
months, and no more than a
year at the-longest for the
present regime.
The reason: Economic prob
lems that may be too tough to
conquer, especially when
winter sets in. These will be
aggravated by a reported cut
of $40 million in American
economic aid funds for this
fiscal year.
African Federation
British hopes are rising for
avoiding another "Congo sit
uation" in the British . ruled
Central African Federation.
An agreement for limited in
ternal self-government reach
ed in London with Nyasland's
fiery nationalist leader Hast
ings Banda has been hailed
as a triumph for those advo
cating a gradual movement
towards freedom in African
colonial territories.
Reports
Roscoe Drummond reports
decisively-lost three consecu
tive Congresses. The Demo
cratic majority for Congress
reached nearly 6,000,000 votes
in 1958. Recent public opin
ion polls show a still greater
disparity.
3- At every level of govern
ment, from Congress to court
house, the Democratic party
and the Democratic organiza
tion is immeasurably stronger
than the Republican. Evi
dence: the U. S. Senate stands
66 Democrats, 34 Republicans.
The U. S. House of Represen
tatives has 280 Democrats,
152 Republicans. There are 34
Democratic governors, 16 Re
publican. The Democrats have
majority control of 29 state
legislatures, the Republicans
in seven. The "U. S. News and
World Report" notes that ot
the 177 largest cities, 128 have
Democratic mayors, 49 have
Republican.
4- Organized labor is strong,
er than ever, more united,
better financed than ever, and
will be more active in support
of Senator Kennedy than it
was in support of Adlai Stev
enson. These are formidable assets
for Kennedy at the start of his
campaign. What does Nixon
have with which to counter
these disadvantages?
TT IS a fact that party
strength is not automatical
ly translated into votes for
the Presidential nominee. The
American political habit is to
vote for the man, not the par
' -. "nosing a President.
Kennedy will have to win this
.c.uocratic swing vote; he
won't inherit u. ivixon will
have his chance to win it.
While Nixon does not have
the asset of being a war hfcro,
a leader above partisan poli
tics, he is already far better
known to more voters than is
Kennedy. He has had wider
training for the Presidency,
more direct experience in
world affairs. ?
Nixon will also be present
ing himself to the nation as
the most progressive Repub
lican since Teddy Roosevelt.
Together, these are the rea
sons both Kennedy and Nix
on see this as an unusually
close election,
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